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Sukjin Steve Jang

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biophysicist trying to understand how insects smell things | Postdoc - del Mármol lab @ Harvard Medical school | PhD - Gonzalez lab @ Columbia University

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A story about a tiny RNA that taught us a whole lot!!

31.07.2025 13:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A covalent recognition strategy enables conspecific mate identification The olfactory system can detect an uncountable number of volatile molecules while retaining the ability to discriminate amongst very similar ones. We identified a unique mechanism employed by insect o...

New preprint in the lab combining what we like best: insects, love, chemistry and the olfactory system! 1/8
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

03.06.2025 21:59 — 👍 30    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 2
Ruben Gonzalez Appointed Dean of Science | Arts & Sciences

As some of you already know, I was appointed Dean of Science at Columbia in December and began my role on Jan 1. It’s an honor to support our students, postdocs, and faculty—especially in this challenging moment. Science at Columbia is strong. #ColumbiaScience fas.columbia.edu/news/ruben-g...

12.03.2025 12:02 — 👍 46    🔁 11    💬 12    📌 1
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Our latest work is out in Nature today! Using smFRET, we directly visualized recruitment of the eIF4F complex to the 5' cap of eukaryotic mRNAs and formation of an activated mRNA. Our findings reveal new and surprising roles for each eIF4F component. 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

11.12.2024 21:35 — 👍 171    🔁 55    💬 11    📌 4
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A microRNA is the effector gene of a classic evolutionary hotspot locus In Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the genomic region around the gene cortex is a “hotspot” locus, repeatedly implicated in generating intraspecific melanic wing color polymorphisms across 100 mi...

Our miRNA story is now in @science.org ! We found a microRNA, not a protein, that finally solved a long-standing evolutionary mystery of wing coloration in butterflies and moths. (1/n)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

05.12.2024 21:35 — 👍 248    🔁 107    💬 12    📌 23
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Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

24.11.2024 13:54 — 👍 1217    🔁 458    💬 57    📌 80

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